1884.] Botany. 625 
Siprinchium bermudianum, var. 1, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., xvi., 
p. 117. 
Endemic in the Bermudas. 
Besides the Bermudan specimens alluded to above, there are 
cultivated specimens at Kew from the herbarium of Bishop 
Goodenough, presented by the corporation of Carlisle. 
Sisyrinchium bermudiana differs from S. angustifolium in being 
much larger in all its parts, and strikingly so in its broad leaves, 
which are equitant at the base ; hence Curtis’s name iridtotdes. It 
grows eighteen to twenty-four inches high, and is stout in pro- 
portion. The flowers are large, and the broad segments of the 
perianth are obovate-mucronate; but I have not been able to 
compare the flowers, as there are none of the Bermudan species 
in a satisfactory state. However, a comparison of the figures 
a Should be sufficient to convince anyone of their specific 
versity 
States for considering them as such, Miller’s name, being the 
farliest, is the oné to adopt. 
SisyRiNcHiIUM ANGUSTIFOLIUM Miller, Dict., ed. 6 (1771). 
Sityrinchium anceps Cavanilles, Dissert. vi, p. 345 t. 190, fig. 2 (1788). 
Sisyrinchium gramineum Curtis, Bot. Mag., t. 464 (1799). 
um mucronatum Michaux, FI. Bor.-Am. ii, p. 33 (1803). 
Sisyrinchium bermudiana Linn., Sp. PL, ed. i, p. 954 excl, f- dermudense. 
Sisyrinchium bermudiana, A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U. S., ed. 5, p- 517; Chap- 
may ci Southern U, S., p. 474; Baker in Jour. Linn. Soc. Lond., xvi, p. 117, 
. Var. I, 
inchium cæruleum parvum gladiato caule Virginianum ; Plukenet, Almagestum, 
P- 348, et Phytogr., t. 61, fig. 1. 
na graminea, flore minore cæruleo : Dillenius, Hort. Elth., p. 49, t. 41, 
en in the Eastern States of North America, from Massa- 
‘and A to F lorida, and naturalized in the Mauritius, New Zealand, 
a ustralia. It also occurs in Ireland, where it is reported to 
mretding; and as it so readily colonizes, it has been con- 
+d as an introduced plant, though, on the other hand, the 
American Eriocaulon septangulare is generally admitted to 
indigenous in Ireland. Since the above has been in type, 
